1991: The Literatures of Canada

Panel

Date

Mar 19th, 1991

Participants

David Williamson

Di Brandt

Ven Begamudre

Digitization Status

permissions pending, digitization planned

Run time

56:59

Archival Format

U-Matic/VHS

Call Number

V406

This audiovisual recording from March 19, 1991 as part of the 22nd annual UND Writing Conference: “The Literatures of Canada” features Di Brandt, Ven Begamudre, and David Williamson forming the noon panel. The panelists discuss their Canadian identity, characteristics of Canadian writing, small regional Canadian presses, Canadian writers' guilds, fragmented identity, influential Canadian writers, and writing inside and outside a Canadian voice or point of view.

Reading: Ven Begamudre

Date

Mar 19th, 1991

Participants

Ven Begamudre

Digitization Status

permissions pending, digitization planned

Run time

35:35

Archival Format

U-Matic/VHS

Call Number

V407

In this audiovisual recording from March 19, 1991 as part of the 22nd annual UND Writing Conference: “The Literatures of Canada,” Ven Begamudre reads “A Planet of Eccentrics.”

Reading: David Williamson and Di Brandt

Date

Mar 19th, 1991

Participants

David Williamson

Di Brandt

Digitization Status

permissions pending, digitization planned

Run time

69:22

Archival Format

U-Matic/VHS

Call Number

V408, V409

In this audiovisual recording from March 19, 1991 as part of the 22nd annual UND Writing Conference: “The Literatures of Canada,” David Williamson and Di Brandt read from their work. Williamson reads excerpts from his novel Running Out and the drafted story “Retrieving.” Brandt reads a selection of poems from questions i asked my mother, Agnes in the sky, and mother, not mother.

Introduced by Thom Tammaro.

Panel

Date

Mar 20th, 1991

Participants

Carol Shields

Dorothy Livesay

Madeline Gagnon

Michael Ondaatje

Digitization Status

restricted content, digitization planned

Run time

56:15

Archival Format

U-Matic/VHS

Call Number

V410

This audiovisual recording from March 20, 1991 as part of the 22nd annual UND Writing Conference: “The Literatures of Canada” features Carol Shields, Dorothy Livesay, Madeleine Gagnon, and Michael Ondaatje forming the noon panel. The panelists discuss their notions of nationalism, national identity, personal identity, and characteristics of Canadian and French Canadian writing.

Moderator: Michael Beard.

Reading: Carol Shields

Date

Mar 20th, 1991

Participants

Carol Shields

Digitization Status

permissions pending, digitization planned

Run time

41:49

Archival Format

U-Matic/VHS

Call Number

V411

In this audiovisual recording from March 20, 1991 as part of the 22nd annual UND Writing Conference: “The Literatures of Canada,” Carol Shields reads “Love So Fleeting, Love So Fine” and a draft of “Keys.”

Introduced by Martha Meek.

Reading: Michael Ondaatje

Date

Mar 20th, 1991

Participants

Michael Ondaatje

Digitization Status

restricted content, digitization planned

Run time

61:00

Archival Format

U-Matic/VHS

Call Number

V412

In this audiovisual recording from March 20, 1991 as part of the 22nd annual UND Writing Conference: “The Literatures of Canada,” Michael Ondaatje reads a selection of his work. Ondaatje reads the poems “Sweet Like a Crow,” “Translations of My Postcards,” “The Cinnamon Peeler,” “To a Sad Daughter,” “In A Yellow Room,” “Birchbark,” and prose excerpts from Running in the Family and In the Skin of a Lion.

Panel: Writing in Time of War

Date

Mar 21st, 1991

Participants

Carol Shields

David Arnason

Kristjana Gunnars

Roch Carrier

Digitization Status

permissions pending, digitization planned

Run time

56:16

Archival Format

U-Matic/VHS

Call Number

V413

This audiovisual recording from March 21, 1991 as part of the 22nd annual UND Writing Conference: “The Literatures of Canada” features David Arnason, Carol Shields, Kristjana Gunnars, and Roch Carrier forming the panel “Writing in Time of War.” The panelists discuss their experience as writers during war time, writing about war, sensationalism of war, use of irony, national and cultural issues of war, and the rhetoric that sustains war.

Moderated by Sheryl O'Donnell.

Reading: Dorothy Livesay and Madeline Gagnon

Date

Mar 21st, 1991

Participants

Dorothy Livesay

Madeline Gagnon

Digitization Status

permissions pending, digitization planned

Run time

42:35

Archival Format

U-Matic/VHS

Call Number

V414

In this audiovisual recording from March 21, 1991 as part of the 22nd annual UND Writing Conference: “The Literatures of Canada,” Dorothy Livesay and Madeleine Gagnon read a selection of poetry in both English and French originals and English and French translation, with Livesay reading in English and Gagnon in French.

Reading: Roch Carrier

Date

Mar 22nd, 1991

Participants

Roch Carrier

Digitization Status

permissions pending, digitization planned

Run time

52:11

Archival Format

U-Matic/VHS

Call Number

V415

In this audiovisual recording from March 22, 1991 as part of the 22nd annual UND Writing Conference: “The Literatures of Canada,” Roch Carrier reads a selection of his work. Carrier reads “The Boxing Chamption,” “Pierrette's Bumps,” and an excerpt from a novel.

Introduced by Robert W. Lewis.

Reading: David Arnason and Kristjana Gunnars

Date

Mar 22nd, 1991

Participants

David Arnason

Kristjana Gunnars

Digitization Status

permissions pending, digitization planned

Run time

62:02

Archival Format

U-Matic/VHS

Call Number

V416

In this audiovisual recording from March 22, 1991 as part of the 22nd annual UND Writing Conference: “The Literatures of Canada,” Kristjana Gunnars and David Arnason read from their work. Gunnars reads excerpts from The Prowler, a sequence of poems titled “The Silent Hand,” and selections of poetry from Carnival of Longing. Arnason reads the stories “The Figure Skater” and “Driving Through Montana.”

Reading: William Kinsella

Date

Mar 22nd, 1991

Participants

William Kinsella

Digitization Status

permissions pending, digitization planned

Run time

54:22

Archival Format

U-Matic/VHS

Call Number

V417

In this audiovisual recording from March 22, 1991 as part of the 22nd annual UND Writing Conference: “The Literatures of Canada,” William Kinsella reads the opening of Shoeless Joe, “The Alligator Report—With Questions for Discussion,” an excerpt from “The Truth,” and excerpts from Box Socials.